DENNIS M. O’DONNELL, JR.
METEOROLOGIST & SYSTEM ANALYST: Blends academic training with real-world experience gained from working with
leading-edge meteorological equipment and technology. Interfaces effectively with clients and decision markers to
provide forecasts, warnings, and analytical reports based on weather patterns and potentially adverse conditions.
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
AVMET APPLICATIONS INC
2013
Systems Analyst
 Provide direct support to FAA System Operations
 Participate in Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Weather Evaluation Team (WET) meetings as a subject
matter expert.
 Evaluate the accuracy of the Automated Winter Weather Dashboard (AWWD) as a tool for alerting airport
planners to adverse condition during winter weather events.
 Attend daily operational briefings on the control floor at the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command
Center (ATCSCC)
 Conduct research and analyze Air Traffic Management (ATM) actions, decisions, and the impacts of weather
and weather forecasts on the NAS.
FIRST SOLAR ELECTRIC
2010-2012
Energy Planning Engineer
 Advised engineers on climactic conditions at project sites around the world; frequently traveled on-site to
maintain weather towers and equipment.
 Analyzed large data set collected at multiple utility scale solar PV sites, ranging between 5MW and 80MW.
 Worked closely with instrumentation engineers on placement of sensors in large PV power plants.
 Developed new meteorological station mast for use in FS plants.
 Used MAT LAB, PVSyst, and MS SQL during work.
WEATHER TRENDS INTERNATIONAL
2006-2010
Senior Systems Meteorologist
 Monitored weather conditions across the globe and provide alters to clients on changing weather conditions;
clients included retail, investors, and snow removal companies.
 Evaluated long-range weather forecasts that extended out from ten days to one year; reported information to
a number of clients in fields that ranged retail to financial investments.
 Created tools to increase productivity and automate repeated tasks; lowered time needed for analysis 75% as
a result which enabled lower employee headcount and cost savings.
 Developed a web-based tool used to perform regression analysis of retail sales to multiple weather variables.
 Automated .pdf report generation, allowing clients the option to create any volume of reports they needed.
 Crafted and published meteorological maps using GIS; coded in perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML, and FORTRAN.
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Graduate Research Assistant – RICO Field Campaign
 Strategized and executed the King Air flight plan during student flight operations.
 Flew in and operated instruments in the Wyoming King Air and NCAR C-130 research aircraft.
2005
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY
2004
Lead Student Researcher
 Headed a group of students that were participating in a study funded by MANE-VU; oversaw scheduling and
training on multiple instruments used in the project.
 Made wind, precipitation, cloud base height, and pollution forecasts to determine which days were
acceptable for the goals of the assignment.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
BS, Meteorology – MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY
MS (Incomplete), Atmospheric Science – UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Researched cumulus cloud development in the Caribbean
Graduate Student Representative for the University of Wyoming Engineering Fund for Enrichment (UWEFE)
Member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Vice President of the SE Wyoming Chapter ~ Serves on the AMS sub-committee on renewable energy